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Via Kyle Griffin:
#Trump just named Newsmax host and 2020 election denier Seb Gorka as his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism.
Brad Moss:
For the second time, we will learn if someone who literally worked for a foreign government can get a security clearance.
Via Schooley:
Getting an early start on "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period" season.
Josh Marshall:
The intensity of #Trump worlds sensitivity about his “mandate” and “overwhelming victory” is pretty transparent. They were actually sending out press emails this morning trying to “prove” it was a mandate. Fact that he’s below 50% is a big deal to them. Tiny margin by any standard
Looks like fascist governments like the US and Hungary will be welcoming wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu whereas non-fascist ones might arrest him. I guess it’s a good way to know whether you live in a fascist country or not.
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#ICC #arrestWarrant #ICCArrestWarrants #Netanyahu #Israel #genocide #warCrimes #crimesAgainstHumanity #criminals #fascism #trump #orban #internationalLaw #Palestine #Gaza
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database to identify potential hires for the incoming administration, a person familiar with the plans said
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
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Trump team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing the effort during the campaign
Trump and his allies disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign. But now transition officials are utilizing its extensive personnel database for potential hires.Allan Smith (NBC News)
Via Kyle Griffin:
#Harris' 2024 vote total — now sitting at 74.3 million votes and counting — has surpassed #Trump's total in 2020 for the third-highest of all time, according to an analysis by Axios.
The Trump-Harris popular vote margin is the narrowest since Bush vs. Gore in 2000. axios.com/newsletters/axios-am…
Matt Gaetz drops bid for #Trump attorney general in face of Senate opposition
One down…
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Matt Gaetz drops bid for Trump attorney general in face of Senate opposition
Hardline Republican Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration as president-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, in the face of opposition from the Senate Republicans whose support he would have needed to win the job.Reuters (South China Morning Post)
Feds established a trail of payments from #MattGaetz, #Trump’s choice to be AG, to women including some who testified that #Gaetz hired them for sex, acc/to a doc obtained by NYT & a lawyer representing some of the women.
The doc, assembled by investigators during a 3-yr #SexTrafficking investigation into Gaetz, is a chart that shows a web of thousands of dollars in Venmo payments between Gaetz…, associates & women who had drug-fueled sex parties 2017–2020….
Cruise line offers ‘escape’ from Trump presidency with multi-year packages
Villa Vie Residences says program will cost less than $40,000 a year and traverse 425 ports across 140 countries
"The answer to the question on so many Americans’ lips — 'How did we get here?' — is straightforward. That answer won’t be found in the margins of which group shifted toward Trump between 2020 and 2024. It is right in front of us. White evangelical Protestants, along with other conservative white Christians, were the principal actors who baptized, defended, rehabilitated and sustained Trump’s candidacy."
"The biggest thing mainstream analysis refuses to comprehend is the continued power of a politics of racial grievance and religious nostalgia among white Christian Americans."
~ Robert P. Jones
The media comprehend this. They just do not intend to admit it, because tax cuts for their super-rich owners and managers count more than anything, and admitting the price of getting those tax cuts is shameful.
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The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians
The "religious nostalgia" that unites White Christians under Trump has propelled his rise since the beginningSalon.com
"Trump once more owes his victory entirely ... to the votes of white Christian nationalists, people who frankly overwhelmingly favor strong leaders. They want someone to be the victor against evil. They want someone to crush their enemies."
~ Jennifer Rubin
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"Beyond all the hot takes of who was up and who was down compared to the last election, the clearest answer to why Trump will be returning to the White House is that white Christians, more than any other religious group, returned to the polls to put him there."
~ Robert P. Jones
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The Rest of the Story: White Christians and the Second Coming of Trump
Sharing my interview with Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post and Chauncey Devega at Salon.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"Trump is … an atavist, inviting citizens to satisfy all of their hungry drives, all of their libidinous instincts: His America is a place for malign energies to express themselves in action. There’s a certain pleasure in that, perhaps, a kind of psychic relief—to lose oneself in a radical movement and to express feelings normally prohibited by society."
~ Elizabeth Bruenig
The cruelty is the point.
"One of the reasons those of us who’ve been paying attention were devastated by the results of the 2024 election is because we know not only how cruel my uncle and his supporters are, but just how cruel they intend to be. …
In the last two weeks, Donald has made it clear through his cabinet picks that he—and they—intend to cause as much pain as possible to their perceived enemies and to the most vulnerable among us."
~ Mary Trump
"Trump’s cabinet appointments are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance. … Wrecking the government is not only Trump’s technique for gaining submission and compliance, but is his ultimate purpose."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
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Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance
With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountableSidney Blumenthal (The Guardian)
As Wajahat Ali points out, we're being told that "Americans voted for Republicans because they were promised a better economy, cheaper eggs, security, and the romanticized promise of becoming 'great again.”'
Yet, we immediately see them as victors roll out stepped-up attacks on trans people.
How do those attacks address the price of eggs? And what did Americans who say it's all about eggs REALLY want when they voted for Trump?
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How Will Bullying Trans People Get Us Cheaper Eggs? On Nancy Mace and the GOP’s Crusade of Cruelty and Division
Since Republicans have no solutions for Americans seeking better economic opportunities, they resort to their cruel & divisive strategy of scapegoating the trans community. It's time we say, "Enough."THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"Christian Reconstructionism is now at the edge of power in the United States, and the attitude of the relevant people towards the female body and indeed towards rape is an essential element of what is happening and what is likely to happen. Both-sidesism, prudery, and euphemisms are keeping much of the media from bringing this story together in time."
~ Timothy Snyder
“If Donald Trump says tariffs work, tariffs work. Because Donald Trump is really never wrong. Think about it. He is never wrong.”
~ Texas Rep. Troy Nehls (R)
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Can Donald Trump Do That?
Unpacking the facts in a time of constitutional uncertaintyMax Burns (The Third Degree)
"They wanted the 'old stability,' the patriarchy that has run the country for generations. In many ways, that's what’s at the heart of the conservative coalition. It's not a rejection of the established order; it's an embrace of it."
Voters may be in for a shock, though, when they see what they ACTUALLY get:
"The Trump presidency isn’t a pick-your-adventure experience, where you can get some parts of Trump’s plan, but not all of it."
"Voters who ignored the facts about the economy and used them as an excuse to vote for Trump weren’t people who wanted a change. They were people who, actually, didn’t want any change at all. They didn't like new policies advanced by the Biden-Harris administration, a more inclusive vision of America where traditionally marginalized people had equal opportunity. They didn’t want a new generation of leadership."
~ Joyce Vance
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"Giving Up Is Unforgivable"
I’m not certain it’s possible to understand what happened in the 2024 election this close to it, beyond the undeniable outcome: Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Overall, 52 percent of respondents to a poll last year by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution thought that America’s best days are behind it. Fifty-five percent, including three quarters of Republicans, said the country’s way of life has mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s.
Altogether, three-fourths of Americans today believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction."
"In a NORC survey in 2017 that focused on questions related to American identity, almost half of respondents said that illegal immigration amounted to a threat to 'the American way of life.' Seventy-one percent of respondents to that poll said the United States was 'losing its national identity.'
This unease extends to other dimensions, such as religion and sexuality."
"For all the polls demonstrating Americans’ grim assessment of the economy, consumers have kept up spending as if they have few worries in the world. For all the gripes about the cost of living, real wages for typical American workers have been rising faster than inflation."
"Just like today, this analysis misses the forest for the trees. Twice already, more or less half of American voters have elected a guy who promises to overthrow the liberal world order — to do away with democratic institutions, values, and norms, trample on human rights, blow up the economy — and to bend the nation, and the world, to his will."
"Explaining the rise of Trump as a consequence of economic forces battering the working class is not a new approach. In 2016, we were told the culprit was globalization and the related 'China shock' that destroyed 1 million or so manufacturing jobs. This analysis pegged generally pro-trade mainstream Democrats (and Republicans) as a gang of cosmopolitan elites uninterested in the fortunes of blue-collar Americans."
~ Eduardo Porter
Once institutions like the media get on board with that claim and spread it further through the population, people begin to think that what really drew them to the shock-and-awe spectacles with their rejection of norms and frank celebration of cruelty was all about economics in the first place.
It's never about the thrill of cruelty, of targeting demeaned others. It's always about the price of eggs.
But, of course, it's not about that at all.
And normalization proves surprisingly easy as institutions like the media, educational institutions, religious bodies, corporations and the business community, get on board with what they see happening — the wave of the future, they tell themselves, the winning side.
One way fascism normalizes itself — always — is by pretending to be all about the economic betterment of economically oppressed people.
A theme running through much testimony by eyewitnesses as Hitler's fascist movement rose to power in Germany was that the Nazis initially represented only a limited percentage of Germans.
But once it was clear that their star was ascending, people began to applaud the movement and the shock-and-awe spectacles it mounted to excite people.
A key project of fascism is always to normalize itself as it rises.
Break it.
Crack its bones.
Tear the skin off, leave the innards.
Maim and disfigure and destroy the thing until onlookers, sickened by the sight of it, beg to see it banished, removed forever.
This is how fascists destroy democracy.
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Authoritarianism Expert Delivers Chilling Assessment On Trump Cabinet Picks
It's not “just that these people are not qualified enough" or even "totally unqualified," warned Timothy Snyder, who said their selection aims to do one thing.Lee Moran (HuffPost)
BREAKING NEWS
House speaker bans trans women from using Capitol women's bathrooms after first openly trans lawmaker is elected
It comes after Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a bill to ban incoming Rep. Sarah McBride from using female bathrooms at work
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
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Deutsche Rechtsextreme, #NoAfD, kopieren Steuerpolitik des künftigen, faschistischen #US-Präsidenten, #Trump:
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AfD verlangt Wirtschaftswende durch Steuersenkungen #Wirtschaftspolitik #Antrag #Bundestag Die AfD verlangt eine Wirtschaftswende durch Steuersenkungen. Auch der Solidaritätszuschlag soll abgeschafft werden, heißt es in einem Antrag. bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzme…AfD verlangt Wirtschaftswende durch Steuersenkungen
Berlin: (hib/HLE) Die Bundesregierung soll eine sofortige Wirtschaftswende für Deutschland einleiten und dafür in erster Linie Steuern senken. Die AfD-Fraktion verlangt daher in einem...Deutscher Bundestag
"Pres of the Nat Educ Assoc said #Trump's decision to name Linda McMahon for educ sec shows “that he could not care less about our students’ futures”...& called on the Senate to reject “Trump’s unqualified nominee”.
She warned that “McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools” theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
National education union calls Linda McMahon ‘Trump’s unqualified nominee’ and says pick imperils students’ futures – live
President of the National Education Association says Trump’s choice for education secretary shows ‘that he could not care less about our students’ futures’Léonie Chao-Fong (The Guardian)
"Project 2025": Folgt Trump dem radikalen Plan zum Umbau des Staats?
Es geht um Massenausweisungen und einen radikalen Regierungsumbau: Im Wahlkampf hatte sich Trump noch von dem "Project 2025" rechter Vordenker distanziert. Doch nun scheinen die Pläne wieder aktuell. Von Ralf Borchard.
Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite. John Viaud, a retiree in South Carolina, knew he was taking a big risk when he poured his pension money into the stock of his political icon’s social media company. But Viaud was hopeful a #Trump win would rocket the stock into the stratosphere, posting, “Come November all of us are going to be very rich!” In the days since the election the stock has fallen.
Jokes on you #Maga 😜🤣
"Let’s not make the mistake of thinking the only reason Trump wants to use recess appointments is to get his team of deplorables confirmed. He’s not even back in office, but he’s already at work manipulating elected officials into a position where the Constitution can be tossed aside at will."
"Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on. Once they’ve bypassed the Constitutional dictate that they confirm the president’s appointees, there is no standing on principle to insist on strict adherence to the Constitution."
~ Joyce Vance
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What Letting Trump Use Recess Appointments Could Mean
Donald Trump’s stated desire to use recess appointments is about more than putting his cabinet secretaries and other appointees in place without a fight.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Kennedy has devoted his life to destroying public health. He’s obsessed with a confused, quasi-fascist idea of purity, which leads him to attack medical interventions like fluoride, pasteurization, and vaccines, as well as perceived outsiders like Asians and Jewish people. That makes him a good fit for Trump and Trumpism. It also makes him a massive danger to the US and to the world."
~ Noah Berlatsky
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RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat
Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise.Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
